Publication Title
Cybermedia Explorations in Science Sound and Vision
Document Type
Book Chapter
Department or Program
Music
Publication Date
11-26-2021
Abstract
In “Nosedive,” Lacie Pound navigates a futuristic social media world in which a single “rep report” metric determines everything about her life, from employment prospects to credit worthiness. The fate of Pound's “rep report” in “Nosedive” indexes the speed with which social precarity can be visited upon the citizens of what Gilles Deleuze has referred to as the society of control. This discussion takes up a close reading of “Nosedive,” to highlight the episode's illumination of several structures of feeling specific to the neoliberal regime of accumulation.
Recommended Citation
Chapman, Dale. ""A Solid Popularity Arc": Affective Economies in Black Mirror’s "Nosedive"." In Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision. Eds. Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, Selmin Kara, and Jonathan Leal. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media.
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Comments
Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501357077.ch-010